3 posts from October 2008

KCRW TOP 50 FOR WEEK OF 10/13/2008

  1 HOLMES, DAVID == Holy Pictures >> [Universal]
  2 JAZZANOVA == Of All The Things >> [Verve]
  3 KEANE == Perfect Symmetry >> [Interscope]
  4 ZUCO 103 == After The Carnaval >> [Six Degrees]
  5 MOLINA, JUANA == Un Dia >> [Domino]
  6 THIEVERY CORPORATION == Radio Retaliation >> [Esl]
  7 TORRINI, EMILIANA == Me & Armini >> [Rough Trade]
  8 PRIMAL SCREAM == Beautiful Future >> [Wea Intl]
  9 KINKY == Barracuda >> [Nettwerk]
10 LAMONTAGNE, RAY == Gossip In The Grain >> [Rca]
11 COLD WAR KIDS == Loyalty To Loyalty >> [Downtown]
12 FRIENDLY FIRES == Friendly Fires >> [Xl]
13 WELLS, EMILY == Symphonies - Dreams Memories & Parties >> [Creative Control]
14 LEE & HOPKINS == Clutch Of The Tiger >> [Ubiquity]
15 TV ON THE RADIO == Dear Science >> [Interscope]
16 J BOOGIE'S DUBTRONIC SCIENCE == Soul Vibrations >> [Om Hip Hop]
17 NIGHTMARES ON WAX == Thought So >> [Warp]
18 BROKEN WEST == Now Or Heaven >> [Merge]
19 VERVE == Forth >> [On Your Own]
20 HERCULES & LOVE AFFAIR == Hercules & Love Affair >> [Mute/dfa]
21 LANG, KD == Watershed >> [Nonesuch]
22 YAMAGATA, RACHAEL == Elephants...teeth Sinking Into Heart >> [Warner Bros]
23 EL GUINCHO == Alegranza >> [Xl]
24 AMP FIDDLER & SLY & ROBBIE == Inspiration Information - Vol 1 >> [Strut]
25 AZYMUTH == Butterfly >> [Far Out]
26 ANTONY & THE JOHNSONS == Another World >> [Secretly Canadian]
27 MILOSH == Iii >> [Plug Research]
28 KINGS OF LEON == Only By The Night >> [Rca]
29 HADEN, CHARLIE == Rambling Boy >> [Decca]
30 KOUSHIK == Out Of My Window >> [Stones Throw]
31 BLOC PARTY == Intimacy >> [Atlantic]
32 LADYHAWKE == Ladyhawke >> [Emi]
33 QUANTIC - FLOWERING INFERNO == Death Of The Revolution >> [Tru Thoughts]
34 CALYPSO SOUL COMPILATION == Calypsoul 70 >> [Strut]
35 MERCURY REV == Snowflake Midnight >> [Yep Roc]
36 CALEXICO == Carried To Dust >> [Quarterstick]
37 DANDY WARHOLS == Earth To The Dandy Warhols >> [Beat The World]
38 VIRGINS == Virgins >> [Atlantic]
39 M83 == Saturdays Equal Youth >> [Mute]
40 MEIKO == Meiko >> [Myspace]
41 AQUALUNG == Words & Music >> [Verve Forecast]
42 LEWIS, JENNY == Acid Tongue >> [Warner Bros]
43 EST == Leucocyte - Sampler >> [Emarcy]
44 JONES, TOM == Twenty Four Hours >> [S-curve]
45 DUNGEN == Four >> [Kemado]
46 HOLLAND, JOLIE == Living & The Dead >> [Anti]
47 DONKEYS == Living On The Other Side >> [Dead Oceans]
48 CASH, JOHNNY - REMIXED == Johnny Cash Remixed >> [Compadre]
49 BOMB THE BASS == Future Chaos >> [K7]
50 MGMT == Electric Feel >> [Columbia]

KCRW SPECIALTY CHARTS - 10/13/2008

WORLD
  1 ZUCO 103 == After The Carnaval >> [Six Degrees]
  2 MOLINA, JUANA == Un Dia >> [Domino]
  3 KINKY == Barracuda >> [Nettwerk]
  4 QUANTIC - FLOWERING INFERNO == Death Of The Revolution >> [Tru Thoughts]
  5 CALYPSO SOUL COMPILATION == Calypsoul 70 >> [Strut]
  6 BASTIDA, CECI == Veo La Marea >> [Advance]
  7 FAR OUT COMPILATION == Far Out Bossa Nova >> [Far Out]
  8 BRONX RIVER PARKWAY == San Sebastian 152 >> [Truth & Soul]
  9 BAJOFONDO == Mar Dulce >> [Decca]
10 ROUGH GUIDE COMPILATION == Indian Lounge >> [Rough Guide]

RPM
  1 JAZZANOVA == Of All The Things >> [Verve]
  2 ZUCO 103 == After The Carnaval >> [Six Degrees]
  3 THIEVERY CORPORATION == Radio Retaliation >> [Esl]
  4 FRIENDLY FIRES == Friendly Fires >> [Xl]
  5 J BOOGIE'S DUBTRONIC SCIENCE == Soul Vibrations >> [Om Hip Hop]
  6 NIGHTMARES ON WAX == Thought So >> [Warp]
  7 HERCULES & LOVE AFFAIR == Hercules & Love Affair >> [Mute/dfa]
  8 KOUSHIK == Out Of My Window >> [Stones Throw]
  9 CASH, JOHNNY - REMIXED == Johnny Cash Remixed >> [Compadre]
10 BOMB THE BASS == Future Chaos >> [K7]

JAZZ
  1 EST == Leucocyte - Sampler >> [Emarcy]
  2 JAMES, JOSE == Dreamer >> [Brownswood]
  3 LEVIATHAN BROTHERS == Short Stories >> [Red Rockets Glare]
  4 HUNTER, CHARLIE == Baboon Strength >> [Spire Artist Media]
  5 SFJAZZ COLLECTIVE == Live 2008 - 5th Annual Concert Tour >> [Sf Jazz]
  6 PRICE, RACHAEL == Good Hours >> [Claire Vision]
  7 LATCHES == Latches >> [Sunnyside]
  8 COHEN, AVISHAI TRIO == Gently Disturbed >> [Raz Daz]
  9 DAVIS, MILES - TRIBUTE == Miles From India >> [Times Square]
10 BLUE NOTE COMPILATION == Droppin Science - Greatest Samples >> [Blue Note]

  KCRW TOP 50  - 10/06/2008

  1 THIEVERY CORPORATION == Radio Retaliation >> [Esl]
  2 MERCURY REV == Snowflake Midnight >> [Yep Roc]
  3 COLD WAR KIDS == Loyalty To Loyalty >> [Downtown]
  4 CALEXICO == Carried To Dust >> [Quarterstick]
  5 ZUCO 103 == After The Carnaval >> [Six Degrees]
  6 FRIENDLY FIRES == Friendly Fires >> [Xl]
  7 HOLMES, DAVID == Holy Pictures >> [Universal]
  8 TORRINI, EMILIANA == Me & Armini >> [Rough Trade]
  9 PRETENDERS == Break Up The Concrete >> [Shangri-la]
10 JAZZANOVA == Of All The Things >> [Verve]
11 MOLINA, JUANA == Una Dia >> [Domino]
12 KINKY == Barracuda >> [Nettwerk]
13 TV ON THE RADIO == Dear Science >> [Interscope]
14 YAMAGATA, RACHAEL == Elephants - Teeth Sinking Into Heart >> [Warner Bros]
15 CALYPSO SOUL COMPILATION == Calypsoul 70 >> [Strut]
16 BRAZILIAN GIRLS == New York City >> [Verve Forecast]
17 ANTONY & THE JOHNSONS == Another World >> [Secretly Canadian]
18 LEWIS, JENNY == Acid Tongue >> [Warner Bros]
19 KOUSHIK == Out Of My Window >> [Stones Throw]
20 BYRNE & ENO == Everything That Happens Will Happen >> [Self Release]
21 VERVE == Forth >> [On Your Own]
22 STEREOLAB == Chemical Chords >> [4ad]
23 SAADIQ, RAPHAEL == Way I See It >> [Columbia]
24 AZYMUTH == Butterfly >> [Far Out]
25 STARS == Sad Robots Ep >> [Soft Revolution]
26 BRIGHTBLACK MORNING LIGHT == Motion To Rejoin >> [Matador]
27 HANCOCK, HERBIE == Definitive Herbie Hancock >> [Verve]
28 MILOSH == Iii >> [Plug Research]
29 AARON, DAMON == Highlands >> [Ubiquity]
30 HANNIGAN, LISA == Sea Sew >> [Self Release]
31 QUANTIC - FLOWERING INFERNO == Death Of The Revolution >> [Tru Thoughts]
32 TELEPATHIQUE == Last Time On Earth >> [Control Group]
33 COLDPLAY == Viva La Vida >> [Capitol]
34 MERZ == Moi Et Mon Camion >> [Gronland]
35 AQUALUNG == Words & Music >> [Verve Forecast]
36 WILLIAMS, LUCINDA == Little Honey >> [Lost Highway]
37 BLANK BLUE == Dive Ep >> [Ubiquity]
38 DUNGEN == Four >> [Kemado]
39 BOAT PEOPLE == Chandeliers >> [Self Release]
40 DEERHOOF == Offend Maggie >> [Kill Rock Stars]
41 NIGHTMARES ON WAX == Thought So >> [Warp]
42 BLOC PARTY == Intimacy >> [Atlantic]
43 NATURAL SELF == Art Of Vibration >> [Tru Thoughts]
44 SONNY J == Disastro >> [Astralwerks]
45 LAMONTAGNE, RAY == Gossip In The Grain - Sampler >> [Rca]
46 WELLS, EMILY == Symphonies - Dreams Memories & Parties >> [Creative Control]
47 TILLY & THE WALL == O >> [Team Love]
48 NEON NEON == Stainless Style >> [Lex]
49 BLACK GHOSTS == Black Ghosts >> [I Am Sound]
50 UNDER THE SUN == Ost - Music By Shawn Lee >> [Ubiquity]

KCRW SPECIALTY CHARTS - 10/06/2008

WORLD
  1 ZUCO 103 == After The Carnaval >> [Six Degrees]
  2 MOLINA, JUANA == Una Dia >> [Domino]
  3 KINKY == Barracuda >> [Nettwerk]
  4 CALYPSO SOUL COMPILATION == Calypsoul 70 >> [Strut]
  5 QUANTIC - FLOWERING INFERNO == Death Of The Revolution >> [Tru Thoughts]
  6 CURUMIN == Japan Pop Show >> [Quannum Projects]
  7 ATERCIOPELADOS == Rio >> [Nacional]
  8 VILLARES, BETO == Beto Villares >> [Six Degrees]
  9 YUNUPINGU, GEOFFREY GURRUMUL == Gurrumul >> [Skinnyfish]
10 AGO == Cantos Sagrados De Brasil E Cuba >> [Sambata]

RPM
  1 THIEVERY CORPORATION == Radio Retaliation >> [Esl]
  2 ZUCO 103 == After The Carnaval >> [Six Degrees]
  3 FRIENDLY FIRES == Friendly Fires >> [Xl]
  4 JAZZANOVA == Of All The Things >> [Verve]
  5 BRAZILIAN GIRLS == New York City >> [Verve Forecast]
  6 KOUSHIK == Out Of My Window >> [Stones Throw]
  7 NIGHTMARES ON WAX == Thought So >> [Warp]
  8 SONNY J == Disastro >> [Astralwerks]
  9 NEON NEON == Stainless Style >> [Lex]
10 BLACK GHOSTS == Black Ghosts >> [I Am Sound]

JAZZ
  1 HANCOCK, HERBIE == Definitive Herbie Hancock >> [Verve]
  2 HOLLAND, DAVE - SEXTET == Pass It On >> [Dare2]
  3 MOVER, BOB == It Amazes Me >> [Zoho]
  4 NASCIMENTO & JOBIM TRIO == Novas Bossas >> [Blue Note]
  5 PRICE, RACHAEL == Good Hours >> [Claire Vision]
  6 BRAZILIAN TRIO == Forests >> [Zoho Music]
  7 WILSON, CASSANDRA == Loverly >> [Blue Note]
  8 BLUE NOTE COMPILATION == Droppin Science - Greatest Samples >> [Blue Note]
  9 DAVIS, MILES - TRIBUTE == Miles From India >> [Times Square]
10 COHEN, AVISHAI TRIO == Gently Disturbed >> [Raz Daz]

Topping the weekly charts this week are the Brazilian Girls, pushing Iceland's Emiliana Torrini out of the top spot from a few weeks before. Thievery Corporation do esn't disappoint on their new release, Radio Retaliation, holding the #3 spot.  New work by Michael Franti and TV on the Radio round out the top 5.

Be sure to check out the recently archived live video performances from both Michael Franti and the beautifully unique acoustic set by the Brazilian Girls.

 
 KCRW TOP 50 FOR WEEK OF 09/29/2008

  1 BRAZILIAN GIRLS == New York City >> [Verve Forecast]
  2 TORRINI, EMILIANA == Me & Armini >> [Rough Trade]
  3 THIEVERY CORPORATION == Radio Retaliation >> [Esl]
  4 FRANTI, MICHAEL & SPEARHEAD == All Rebel Rockers >> [Anti]
  5 TV ON THE RADIO == Dear Science >> [Interscope]
  6 KEANE == Spiralling >> [Interscope]
  7 MERCURY REV == Snowflake Midnight >> [Yep Roc]
  8 VERVE == Forth >> [On Your Own]
9 MGMT == Electric Feel >> [Columbia]
10 CSS == Donkey >> [Sub Pop]
11 SIGUR ROS == Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust >> [Xl]
12 TILLY & THE WALL == O >> [Team Love]
13 COLD WAR KIDS == Loyalty To Loyalty >> [Downtown]
14 FRIENDLY FIRES == Friendly Fires >> [Xl]
15 PETH == Golden Mile >> [Strangetown]
16 BLOC PARTY == Intimacy >> [Atlantic]
17 CALYPSO SOUL COMPILATION == Calypsoul 70 >> [Strut]
18 CALEXICO == Carried To Dust >> [Quarterstick]
19 SAADIQ, RAPHAEL == Way I See It >> [Columbia]
20 BLACK GHOSTS == Black Ghosts >> [I Am Sound]
21 HOT CHIP == Touch Too Much/hold On - Remixes >> [Astralwerks]
22 QUANTUM OF SOLACE == Ost - Music By Jack White & Alicia Keyes >> [Advance]
23 MOLINA, JUANA == Un Dia >> [Domino]
24 DUNGEN == Four >> [Kemado]
25 KASKADE == Strobelite Seduction >> [Ultra]
26 STEREOLAB == Chemical Chords >> [4ad]
27 SILENT YEARS == Globe >> [First Date]
28 EARLIMART == Hymn & Her >> [Majordomo]
29 KINKY == Barracuda >> [Nettwerk]
30 JESUS & MARY CHAIN == Power Of Negative Thinking - Sampler >> [Rhino]
31 HADEN, CHARLIE == Rambling Boy >> [Decca]
32 KOUSHIK == Out Of My Window >> [Stones Throw]
33 SECRET MACHINES == Secret Machines >> [Tsm]
34 BOAT PEOPLE == Chandeliers >> [Self Release]
35 NIGHTMARES ON WAX == Thought So >> [Warp]
36 QUANTIC - FLOWERING INFERNO == Death Of The Revolution >> [Tru Thoughts]
37 FUJIYA & MIYAGI == Lightbulbs >> [Deaf Dumb & Blind]
38 LEGEND, JOHN == Evolver - Sampler >> [Columbia]
39 FAINT == Fasciinatiion >> [Blank Wav]
40 JEM == Down To Earth >> [Ato]
41 RODRIGUEZ == Cold Fact >> [Light In The Attic]
42 BECK == Modern Guilt >> [Interscope]
43 WELLS, EMILY == Symphonies - Dreams Memories & Parties >> [Creative Control]
44 SANTOGOLD NERD & JULIAN CASABLANCAS == My Drive Thru >> [Cornerstone]
45 HERCULES & LOVE AFFAIR == Hercules & Love Affair >> [Mute/dfa]
46 RACONTEURS == Consolers Of The Lonely >> [Third Man]
47 ELBOW == Seldom Seen Kid >> [Polydor Uk]
48 HOT CHIP == Made In The Dark >> [Astralwerks]
49 DONKEYS == Living on the Other Side >> [Dead Oceans]
50 BROKEN WEST == Now Or Heaven >> [Merge]

KCRW SPECIALTY CHARTS - 09/29/2008

WORLD
  1 CALYPSO SOUL COMPILATION == Calypsoul 70 >> [Strut]
  2 KINKY == Barracuda >> [Nettwerk]
  3 QUANTIC - FLOWERING INFERNO == Death Of The Revolution >> [Tru Thoughts]
  4 LOS CENZONTLES == Songs Of Wood & Steel >> [Lcmac]
  5 SIDESTEPPER == Buena Vibra Sound System >> [Palm]
  6 MC YOGI == Elephant Power >> [White Swan]
  7 MENA, DIEGO == Hey >> [La Viuda Negra]
  8 VILLARES, BETO == Beto Villares >> [Six Degrees]
  9 MONARETA == Picotero >> [Nacional]
10 CUBA, ALEX == Agua Del Pozo >> [Caracol]

RPM
  1 BRAZILIAN GIRLS == New York City >> [Verve Forecast]
  2 THIEVERY CORPORATION == Radio Retaliation >> [Esl]
  3 MGMT == Electric Feel >> [Columbia]
  4 FRIENDLY FIRES == Friendly Fires >> [Xl]
  5 CALYPSO SOUL COMPILATION == Calypsoul 70 >> [Strut]
  6 BLACK GHOSTS == Black Ghosts >> [I Am Sound]
  7 HOT CHIP == Touch Too Much/hold On - Remixes >> [Astralwerks]
  8 NIGHTMARES ON WAX == Thought So >> [Warp]
  9 KASKADE == Strobelite Seduction >> [Ultra]
10 KOUSHIK == Out Of My Window >> [Stones Throw]

JAZZ
  1 VALDES & COLINA == Live At The Village Vanguard >> [Norte]
  2 BARBER, PATRICIA == Cole Porter Mix >> [Blue Note]
  3 PEREZ & OGERMAN == Across The Crystal Sea >> [Decca]
  4 SMV == Thunder >> [Heads Up]
  5 KALINA & SELF == Odd Couple >> [Based Hound]
  6 HARGROVE, ROY QUINTET == Earfood >> [Groovin High]
  7 BRAZILIAN TRIO == Forests >> [Zoho Music]
  8 KAHN, GEORGE == Cover Up >> [Playing]
  9 COHEN, AVISHAI TRIO == Gently Disturbed >> [Raz Daz]
10 DAVIS, MILES - TRIBUTE == Miles From India >> [Times Square]